Harrisburg officials confiscate 'Occupy' tents

Friday

Nov 18, 2011 at 4:03 PMNov 18, 2011 at 4:04 PM

Public works employees have confiscated the tents of Occupy Harrisburg protesters at a park near the state Capitol. Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson gave the protesters a two-hour warning to remove their tents from Riverfront Park on Friday morning.

HARRISBURG (AP) — Public works employees have confiscated the tents of Occupy Harrisburg protesters at a park near the state Capitol.

Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson gave the protesters a two-hour warning to remove their tents from Riverfront Park on Friday morning. Her spokesman, Robert Philbin, says workers under the watch of city police began confiscating tents around 1:30 p.m.

Philbin says the tents violated city ordinances. He says protesters are free to be at the park without tents until 10 p.m. and that the city is trying to find a vacant private property in the city where they can protest with tents.

Jefferson Pepper, an organizer with Occupy Harrisburg, 10 to 20 people have been protesting at the park in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street in New York.